That zenit looks cool as hell
That zenit looks cool as hell
Lofi 3D printing sounds to dream of doodads to
For friends in Beijing who are interested in the music scene, beginning today we are starting a new weekly series at My Dramamine, featuring many of the best composers and experimental musicians in Beijing and China. The series kicks off with performances by Zhang Shouwang and Wang Xu.
This person is mocking me but they’re sincerely describing the thing that is correct
What no hormones does to a mfer
Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...
Ouch SCOTUS
Contra Republican paranoia, career civil servants typically place a premium on loyalty you’d associate with samurai or the Mafia, so these people fucking loathe him
A year ago, doctors told me I had neuroendocrine cancer of the pancreas. I’d probably been living with it for a decade. I will likely never be cured. But after a year of surgeries, radiation and monthly shots with a giant needle, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. defector.com/my-life-with...
I’m a broken record about this, but this is what happened to freelance translators a bit over a decade ago: fixing machine translations — usually redoing, or having to check so closely against the original that it came out to the same thing — for a fifth of the pittance we’d been making before.
today's weibo is the epitome of completely normalized everyday militarism... if you want to browse endless photos of missiles and see everyone repeat "打击范围覆盖全球” (strike range covers the entire globe)
Even the Afrika Korps was only like 30,000 men iirc
Nothing will ever top him not realizing how tall the wall was
Really setting up a "who must go" meme here hakeem
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
Kind of insane that I can wake up, find out the president of the United States is publishing snuff films now, and then just have to go to work like everything’s normal
i do think people — national security reporters in particular — should think a little bit about what it means that pritzker apparently already knows what the plan for the texas national guard in chicago is, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.
I feel like whatever you pick up will come in handy regardless
Like the first week of the pandemic some beach goers who defied a public order not to go to the beach got put into a temporary quarantine and a lawyer on a list serv I was then on compared it to Japanese internment and I realized right then people were going to lose their fucking minds
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
Parts of Parks and Rec aged poorly, but one of the townspeople responding to park closures by demanding to know “what am I supposed to do with my kids? Keep them in my house? Where I live??” was prophetic
Yeah this always get hand waved away but it was the bigger obstacle as I remember it. Maybe could have been compensated with more pay, but teachers (understandably) didn’t want to put themselves at risk
Is this what the 2pm announcement is going to be about?
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
How did the the Berenstain Bears get roped into this?
I’m hearing that Trump has received the light of Islam and will unhesitatingly recite the Shahada. Soon he will look down on the Ummah from the concrete patios of Jannah. Truly, there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet!
Dudes have rarely rocked harder
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
Yes it’s me :( If you know of cool opportunities, please be in touch!
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Medieval Buddhist of the Day: This is Lei Mingxiang, a donor I met at Yaowangshan this summer, and her late husband Tongti Qianchi, in 570. I guess by this point they are both late. Anyway the Yaowangshan stelae are all badly eroded so I drew their donor portraits from the rubbing.
Congrats!
when did the whole country become an armando iannucci show
Taking the wizard train across the DMZ
There are Victorian explorers who would wince at that map
Have we ruled out the possibility that her rabid transphobia is just a distraction to keep from getting cancelled for her equally abhorrent racism?
Somehow never noticed that Japanese wizards are apparently still colonizing Korea
Man that looks so good
Happy Labor Day 🙂
When you let developers overbuild and crash out you get brand new 2br luxury apartments for $2000 they are so eager to lease they're putting flyers on lamp posts, as foretold in the prophecy.
Boy do I have a big scoop for British media about Elon Musk’s citizenship status
Good game plan for the next Dem admin I think
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
JD gonna be out there like
“Please President Xi, my people yearn for the hukou” is both an insane statement and apparently objectively true
I saw dozens of people on here like a post saying it was good that two cops were murdered while trying to serve someone with an arrest warrant for sex crime and child abuse offenses. Why? 'Because ACAB'. Personally, I like the state having people who detain sex pests and child abusers.
So they decided to throw themselves a year long $21 billion military parade on the sea while the pension system is collapsing
Reposting because I had no idea there was a feature that puts random feed posts into the Following tab
I see beavers pausing while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn't fall on them, I share beavers pausing while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn't fall on them. Those are the rules.
Partially buried lede here from both the headline and Columbus is that Rowling's the one self-estranged from everyone else and the obstacle to a reunion: that she'd refuse to work with Radcliffe & Co, not vice versa.
The 55,000 yuan ($7,783) Louis Vuitton "lobster"🦞 purse is trending on Chinese social media because people think it resembles a cockroach. It does, though! 🪳
And any attempt to stop him is presumptively illegal or in violation of political norms
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Broke: Evicting the working class Bespoke: Relocating “the low-end population”
It’s an intentional choice to cap their populations
“was Lee or Grant a better general” is a question with an obviously correct answer that a whole lot of people get wrong
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
THREAD - I stopped posting much about Chinese dramas because I haven't seen many with interesting historical connections, which is mainly what I want to talk about in this space (I haven't given up watching them, and am currently enjoying the Scooby Gang in "Seven Relics of Ill Omen"), HOWEVER:
They believed no big news would happen, because Nick Castellanos hadn't hit a home run in a while. But they were all of them deceived, for another Castellanos was made
Lot of good ideas here, but if you’re willing to relocate a bit further:
this is one of my favorite accounts — it’s so smart about the language of images and creating interesting conversation through juxtaposition. one of my easiest preorders ever
Last week, Xiamen, legislating as a special economic zone (SEZ), passed China's second piece of personal bankruptcy legislation, after Shenzhen in 2020. The "Shenzhen exception" to the NPC's exclusive power over bankruptcy has apparently been extended to all SEZs. www.xmrd.gov.cn/xwzx/qwfb/20...
Every day a new horror
Ah well, nevertheless
Yeah... If anything they've been *lowering* program funding. Flagship was gutted, and now Trump is illegally withholding FLAS funds
Language learning has been chronically underfunded by Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again. One study found foreign language program enrollment declined over 40% in community colleges and almost 25% in universities from 2009 to 2021. www.americathebilingual.com/cratering-la...
Damn
no matter how this ends, today is a good day on the internet, and boy have I missed a good, fun day on the internet.
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
Yeah this brought back some rough memories but it’s a huge check mark in the “he’s at least in a coma” box for me
Tbh I’m surprised they’re not doing it anyway. Like all the people who convinced themselves Russia wasn’t going to invade Ukraine never really repented. Does getting even big stuff wrong even matter anymore? Keeping my expectations low but it does make me wonder if maybe they do know something.
Classical Chinese for When It Happens or Possibly Already Happened: 丞相斯為上崩在外，恐諸公子及天下有變，乃祕之，不發喪。 Because the Emperor had died while away from the capital, the chancellor Li Si feared rebellion among the princes and the rest of the empire, so he kept it secret and announced no mourning.
“Upper echelon of civil war commanders” is fair but an incredibly low bar. The other confederates managed to lose New Orleans with barely a fight, which somehow wasn’t even their most embarrassing screwup on the Mississippi. Lee still sucked up resources needed elsewhere and accomplished nothing.
I've heard this take a lot, but like, I've used transit in a bunch of cities and I have literally never been on a bus line that worked as well as even the LA metro light rail
Multiple people I know brought the ban up unprompted last week, mostly because they couldn’t believe even he was off limits now
Chatted with Dan Wang on his new book for this week's newsletter in @wired.com Some questions hit close to home as I try to make sense of my lived experience in New York, a city that could build subway 120 years ago, and Wuhan, a city that could build 7 subway lines in 4 years from 2014 to 2018.
Football’s back
alright i'm going to be honest some of you are hoping against hope the president is about to die and some of you are lifelong mariners fans lamenting another loss and none of you are being all that clear about which one you're feeling right now
I’d guess you’d see a rapid resurgence of “It’s not gay as long as you’re a top”
tapping the sign
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
I am a simpleton, but it does not make much sense to me to hang a picture of a literal traitor in the halls of your military learning institution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
“the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.”
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
The United States has been taken over by people in a cargo cult for Lukashenko’s Belarus
a small sad thought: the second Trump term, lagged, is going to be visible in median adult American height
also, an all timer in the field of game journalism, “Yakuza opining on a Yakuza game”
If Biden ends up outliving trump I swear to god
Surprisingly so. It’s not big, highly recommend a weekend trip if you ever get a chance
this guy played with Ted Danson’s character in Cheers
If you were out to destroy the world, this is how you'd do it:
Also so they can use water cooler small talk to honeytrap unsuspecting Chinese women into giving up national secrets
What a bizarre thing to lie about
Never has a simple "he/his/him" made me want to stand up and cheer, and possibly take to the streets.
Elena Existing 